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the pentagon is a big part of this. what better than to have a republican senator be the guy on capitol hill lobbying and dealing with the pentagon, which is inevitable, but it's not an easy thing to do, so why not have a republican make that argument? it's the big picture thinking as far as the president is concerned. i want to talk to miling lighter for a moment. he had been at the cia and some said he wanted to be the first cia director. he was opposed by a lot of -- on the left when those that were against policies that he had after 9/11 and under the bush white house, including enhanced interrogation techniques, including waterboarding. >> why is he the right fit for cia? >> i think is he the right fit that he knows the building missed and out. it is not an easy organization to manage. the second most important thing is the president and he have a really strong relationship. the president trusts him. in the director of the cia, someone who will be walking into the oval office, recommending covert action, giving ver
the pentagon is a big part of this. what better than to have a republican senator be the guy on capitol hill lobbying and dealing with the pentagon, which is inevitable, but it's not an easy thing to do, so why not have a republican make that argument? it's the big picture thinking as far as the president is concerned. i want to talk to miling lighter for a moment. he had been at the cia and some said he wanted to be the first cia director. he was opposed by a lot of -- on the left when those...
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that's it for the pentagon. yes, there is a great desire with john brennan to demilitaryize the cia. >> now, speaking of afghanistan in town today. hamid karzai at the pentagon today and on the hill and later will be at the state department for dinner with hillary clinton. he was with leon panetta today. this comes shortly after he sat down with our own atia and just ehave is rated u.s. policy. >> he has a problem with this new team, though. you remember a couple of years ago three senators went and met with him, and there was -- for dinner. karzai in kabul. there was -- they raised the issue of corruption in his government, and it became a big incident. joe biden, hagel, and john kerry? zeefs later sent as a private envoy to smooth things over with karzai. >> true, but this is -- karzai must look at the leadership of the second obama administration and see a message coming for him then. what the troop levels will be after 2014 and will there even be u.s. troops there? >> ruth marcus, the white house is telling
that's it for the pentagon. yes, there is a great desire with john brennan to demilitaryize the cia. >> now, speaking of afghanistan in town today. hamid karzai at the pentagon today and on the hill and later will be at the state department for dinner with hillary clinton. he was with leon panetta today. this comes shortly after he sat down with our own atia and just ehave is rated u.s. policy. >> he has a problem with this new team, though. you remember a couple of years ago three...
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the political swagger, if you will, that secretary of defense immediate to both operate inside the pentagon, and that's -- you heard robert gibbs, former press secretary yesterday say it was a little disconcerting watching him give those answers. they made a strategic decision not to have a debate with those republican senators. trying to not start fights, but was he too passive? >> there was a way to push back. david sanger, he could have said i disagree with you about the surge. senator mccain, you're my great friend, but let's talk about what's really going on. we have 66,000 troops at afghanistan right now. he didn't pivot. he didn't push back. he didn't fight. david brooks, your columnist in "the "new york times"" suggested to chuck this weekend that he should even go so far as saying to the president, mr. president, do you have second thoughts? should i withdraw? that's rather more than i would have expected at this point. >> you know, i think there were two remarkable elements to the testimony that former senator hagel gave. he seemed unprepared on basic issues. we were discussing ir
the political swagger, if you will, that secretary of defense immediate to both operate inside the pentagon, and that's -- you heard robert gibbs, former press secretary yesterday say it was a little disconcerting watching him give those answers. they made a strategic decision not to have a debate with those republican senators. trying to not start fights, but was he too passive? >> there was a way to push back. david sanger, he could have said i disagree with you about the surge. senator...
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the role is very likely going to be downsizing the pentagon many any scenario. what about chuck hagel and about the next leadership, civilian leadership at the pentagon? >> i like the fact that chuck hagel has had his feet in the mud as a soldier. i like the fact that he has had a lot of background. i don't endorse or not endorse him. i don't judge him based on his background, but i would say that two things, first, it's very important that president obama and the secretary of defense have a trust relationship. they're going to go through some difficult times in the next few years. if senator hagel isotology take on a tfk of this magnitude and the president trusts him, i think those are two really important things because it not going to be an easy four years. >> and, general, finally mali, we have a situation now where the troops that we helped are now turning -- they've become islamic rebels. they're fighting against the regime. we are being asked to play some support role perhaps with drones and other roles for the french troops. >> i think we're going to fin
the role is very likely going to be downsizing the pentagon many any scenario. what about chuck hagel and about the next leadership, civilian leadership at the pentagon? >> i like the fact that chuck hagel has had his feet in the mud as a soldier. i like the fact that he has had a lot of background. i don't endorse or not endorse him. i don't judge him based on his background, but i would say that two things, first, it's very important that president obama and the secretary of defense...
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the pentagon is not bound legally the way it says it is. they have told us, we went back to them today, the pentagon lawyers say they have no discretion here. congressman hunter, who, of course is a republican was that the intent of congress was not to deny benefits to soldiers. >> i'm sure it wasn't the intent. what you find now is people going out to serve the country finds a government filled with confusion. when you talk to military family groups, they are spending days and hours trying to sort through what does this law mean, paramilitary act, what did congress contend, what can families call on in an hour which they never expected to be, reeling from a tragedy of epic proportion. nobody expected us to be here. if you asked people a month ago would we be in this situation, most would have said no. the reality is fighting men and women face more uncertainty as their country goes to war than they ever have before. all allowed this because this shutdown is one american people are breaking their promises people have signed up to fight and
the pentagon is not bound legally the way it says it is. they have told us, we went back to them today, the pentagon lawyers say they have no discretion here. congressman hunter, who, of course is a republican was that the intent of congress was not to deny benefits to soldiers. >> i'm sure it wasn't the intent. what you find now is people going out to serve the country finds a government filled with confusion. when you talk to military family groups, they are spending days and hours...
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nine days to go and with no budget deal, the pentagon announces upcoming furloughs for 700,000 civilian employees. >>> as his first speech as secretary of state today, john kerry issued a warning about the budget impasse. >> the looming days of budget sequester that everyone actually wants to avoid, or most, we can't be strong in the world unless we are strong at home. my credibility as a diplomat working to help other countries create order is strongest when america at last puts its own fiscal house in order, and that has to be now. >>> mending fences. president obama calls marco rubio and lindsey graham to talk immigration reform as john mccain faces an angry town hall at home. >> i'd like to respond to any questions or comments or insults that you may have. >> believe me, that is only the beginning. wait until you see what happens next. >>> joe biden being biden. the vice president's frank advice to parents on self defense and gun control. >> if you want to protect yourself, get a double-barrel shotgun. you don't need an ar-15. it's harder to aim, it's harder to use, and, in fact, yo
nine days to go and with no budget deal, the pentagon announces upcoming furloughs for 700,000 civilian employees. >>> as his first speech as secretary of state today, john kerry issued a warning about the budget impasse. >> the looming days of budget sequester that everyone actually wants to avoid, or most, we can't be strong in the world unless we are strong at home. my credibility as a diplomat working to help other countries create order is strongest when america at last puts...
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the pentagon was warning people. there are republican colleagues, duncan hunter and others, who say this is an overly narrow interpretation by the controller and the lawyers and the attorney general all the way up to the attorney general, according to the pentagon, that eric holder signed off on this. how can one lawyer say that this was not covered under the other legislation that was passed, the small legislation to fix shutdown problems, and how could the white house have not been aware? >> well, andrea, this is another situation where, you know, our republican colleagues vote to shut down the government. they keep the government shut down by refusing a full vote in the house and say they're shocked that there are these unintended consequences when the administration is trying to enforce the law of the government shutdown. again, the fastest way to remove all these problems would be to have that vote today and get it passed. every day you're going to find more and more unintended consequences. when you shut down t
the pentagon was warning people. there are republican colleagues, duncan hunter and others, who say this is an overly narrow interpretation by the controller and the lawyers and the attorney general all the way up to the attorney general, according to the pentagon, that eric holder signed off on this. how can one lawyer say that this was not covered under the other legislation that was passed, the small legislation to fix shutdown problems, and how could the white house have not been aware?...
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. >> let me ask you about the sequester, chris cillizza, because the pentagon is suggesting there will be 700,000 civilian layoffs. real people are being effected now, but everyone expects this will kick in in nine days and then, i guess, the white house thinks they'll negotiate the continuing resolution and some sort of an agreement will occur magically before the end of march. republicans still say they won't buy into any taxes. so we haven't bridged any of these gaps. >> we haven't, andrea. look, i know the president came out and gave a statement yesterday sort of expressing his desire for a deal, but i think this is really about -- and republicans are doing this too -- about positioning for march 2nd and beyond. no one expects a congress, who isn't even here this week, they are taking the president's week off, fine with me if i had that week off. they are taking this week off. next week they are back. congress doesn't get big budget deals done in eight days' time, seven days' time. the political positioning to see who has the upper hand in the negotiations that, in theory, will go
. >> let me ask you about the sequester, chris cillizza, because the pentagon is suggesting there will be 700,000 civilian layoffs. real people are being effected now, but everyone expects this will kick in in nine days and then, i guess, the white house thinks they'll negotiate the continuing resolution and some sort of an agreement will occur magically before the end of march. republicans still say they won't buy into any taxes. so we haven't bridged any of these gaps. >> we...
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let me pause at what the pentagon is saying and and get your response. the pentagon is saying number one, that the four special forces operatives had to remain in tripoli to guard the embassy there and they were not combat ready and his suggestion as well that there could have been a flyover of f-16s from aviano in italy to buzz the terror attackers and scare them off. wouldn't have worked. because they were five hours away and would have to be refuelled mid-air and there were not refuelers present. has your committee taken that argument into consideration? >> well, sure, that's why we're want to hear testimony from the career foreign service person who is the senior-most person on the ground. this is not a political appointee. gregory hicks, i found him to be a real patriot when i went there in the first week of october. we want to hear firsthand accounts, not from the politicians but from the people who have firsthand accounts. >> i take that point, but he's not a military man. he's a diplomat and a very senior one. experienced one with great credibili
let me pause at what the pentagon is saying and and get your response. the pentagon is saying number one, that the four special forces operatives had to remain in tripoli to guard the embassy there and they were not combat ready and his suggestion as well that there could have been a flyover of f-16s from aviano in italy to buzz the terror attackers and scare them off. wouldn't have worked. because they were five hours away and would have to be refuelled mid-air and there were not refuelers...
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she denied it strongly. >> anybody who characterizes me as someone who is protecting the pentagon, that somehow i'm in cahoots with the pentagon trying to hurt sexual assault victims, or -- with all due respect to you guys, i think you're terrific but there is nobody who will be further in front of the line to kick you until you're senseless if we don't get this problem under control. >> so there. chris cillizza, this has been an internal argument among supporters of more action. you've got kirsten gillibrand versus claire mccaskill. looks like there will be a delayful after the august recess. >> andrea, look. this has picked up more attention earlier this week when rand paul and ted cruz, not usually people who join with someone like kirstin jien gilli on legislation signed on to the idea of taking the sexual assault cases outside the chain of military command. claire mccaskill obviously does not want to be seen as someone defending the status quo, which she has spoken out against. i think honestly what it points to, this is not as simple an issue as you might think. carl levin, anothe
she denied it strongly. >> anybody who characterizes me as someone who is protecting the pentagon, that somehow i'm in cahoots with the pentagon trying to hurt sexual assault victims, or -- with all due respect to you guys, i think you're terrific but there is nobody who will be further in front of the line to kick you until you're senseless if we don't get this problem under control. >> so there. chris cillizza, this has been an internal argument among supporters of more action....
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joining me now nbc news chief pentagon correspondent jim miklacevski. >> what is the pentagon telling you and leon panetta was travel and has been talking to reporters along the way, but do we know more about exactly what happened in this shoot-out? >> u.s. officials all along have said the details are murky, and here's what we know and what we don't know. about seven hours almost 24 hours after the hostages were taken by those armed militants, al qaeda-linked militants at that bp malgas plant there in algeria, the algerian military launched what was supposed to be a hostage rescue operation. as we understand it, it was very violent. the algerians are reporting that 25 hostages, either were freed or escaped, and as many as six hostages were killed. now, both british and u.s. officials say they were not informed in advance that the algerian military was going to launch this hostage rescue attempt, and, in fact, some officials are somewhat upset over that fact, but they understand and some officials have acknowledged that the algerians are, you know, in a situation in a pretty bad maine
joining me now nbc news chief pentagon correspondent jim miklacevski. >> what is the pentagon telling you and leon panetta was travel and has been talking to reporters along the way, but do we know more about exactly what happened in this shoot-out? >> u.s. officials all along have said the details are murky, and here's what we know and what we don't know. about seven hours almost 24 hours after the hostages were taken by those armed militants, al qaeda-linked militants at that bp...
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assume that he gets confirmed, he has to be a tough -- a tough guy at the pentagon. he is going to be tough with congress. he has to deal with the potential of the sequester, fighting for the budget that he does get, dealing with all of the problems that come at you when you are in charge of the pentagon and the generals and the other members of the joint chiefs are going to feel they can run over him. >> we'll see about that. i assume that every general with any number of stars was watching intently yesterday, and might have had that thought in mind. you said another important word, which is sequester. it's going to be a huge mess over there trying to, first, anticipate this, and then deal with whatever the new reality is. i do think that it was ugly yesterday. it was ugly on both sides. the white house wasn't so much from what i heard defending his performance as saying that those mean republicans also performed in an ugly and bad and not very attractive way. i don't think anybody looked particularly good in that showdown. i also think it's very clear that this is,
assume that he gets confirmed, he has to be a tough -- a tough guy at the pentagon. he is going to be tough with congress. he has to deal with the potential of the sequester, fighting for the budget that he does get, dealing with all of the problems that come at you when you are in charge of the pentagon and the generals and the other members of the joint chiefs are going to feel they can run over him. >> we'll see about that. i assume that every general with any number of stars was...
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leaders at the pentagon are under fire today for obvious lapses in security clearances. not only at the navy yard shooting but also in the past cases of snowden and hasan. this as investigators are learning more about the deteriorating mental condition of aaron alexis. joining us now, nbc justice correspondent pete williams. pete, what do we know about alexis and what warnings signs there were? >> well, i think we have a pretty good idea of what those signs were, andrea, what the secretary is calling the red flags. first of all, there's his three brushes with the law that we know of. one in georgia where he's thrown out of a nightclub. one in seattle where he shoots the tires out of a car in a fit of anger, describing it to police as an anger-fueled blackout. that was before he got his security clearance. then again when he shot a firearm into an apartment building, the apartment above his, the round penetrated into the room above his occupied by a woman that he'd been arguing with about noise. then, of course, we know he told the police in newport just about a month ago
leaders at the pentagon are under fire today for obvious lapses in security clearances. not only at the navy yard shooting but also in the past cases of snowden and hasan. this as investigators are learning more about the deteriorating mental condition of aaron alexis. joining us now, nbc justice correspondent pete williams. pete, what do we know about alexis and what warnings signs there were? >> well, i think we have a pretty good idea of what those signs were, andrea, what the...
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zoom a strong advocate for chuck hagel for the pentagon job. general, welcome. thank you very much. >> nice to be with you. thank you. >> tell me why you think chuck hagel is the right person for this job despite all the controversy that has been raised about what he said about israel in the past and iran in the past, criticisms of some of his other statements certainly the statements about gay americans. >> i think for two, maybe three reasons. first of all, he is a very solid, sound thinker. he has been involved in these matters for decades. he comes at decisions by analysis. not by a mee jerk support for this philosophy or that, but what is best for the united states. that's a wonderful attitude, and i think he and john kerry have similar points of view, and they'll be a good team. but, secondly, he is -- he would be the first secretary of defense to have served as an enlisted man in the trenches. from uso to veterans administration, he understands the political and human problems in a way that no other secretary has. >> do you think that he has the experienc
zoom a strong advocate for chuck hagel for the pentagon job. general, welcome. thank you very much. >> nice to be with you. thank you. >> tell me why you think chuck hagel is the right person for this job despite all the controversy that has been raised about what he said about israel in the past and iran in the past, criticisms of some of his other statements certainly the statements about gay americans. >> i think for two, maybe three reasons. first of all, he is a very...
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that this sequester is -- because of its sort of blunder bust approach that it does not permit the pentagon to make intelligent choices about what is needed, so it is going to get to readiness. ready city council what we need. >> this is the absurdness of washington. >> the white house proposed th-- >> proposing to get agreement on this. now the new strategy is, yeah, but you can't let that sequester happen because the spending cuts would be so awful when, in fact, there are democrats like dick durbin who will be on the program sunday who have said he doesn't really have a problem with the amount of spending cuts in the pentagon. it's a matter of how you go about doing it. republicans i think also have some leverage here by saying, you know, if you really get us down to it, if have to swallow these spending cuts, we're going take them because that might be good. you got your revenues there. zoolt sequester, we don't like it, but before it on. >> there's a lot of pain. particularly if are you from virginia and you have military cuts coming down your way, this is tough. spending cuts are toug
that this sequester is -- because of its sort of blunder bust approach that it does not permit the pentagon to make intelligent choices about what is needed, so it is going to get to readiness. ready city council what we need. >> this is the absurdness of washington. >> the white house proposed th-- >> proposing to get agreement on this. now the new strategy is, yeah, but you can't let that sequester happen because the spending cuts would be so awful when, in fact, there are...
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what are they saying over there at the pentagon? we've also been briefed today that the vice president when he goes to the munich security conference this weekend is going to meet with the syrian envoy from the united nations, brahimi and will meet with the russian foreign minister and with the syrian national council. >> so far out of this building, while they're keeping many of the details close to the vest, we're not hearing any kind of condemnation, criticism, any negative response. in fact, according to one senior military official who we can only identify that way because they're not authorized to speak on the record of this subject, all they could say about it was, you know, the israelis, above anyone else, usually gets these things right. >> no condemnation at all. in fact, from a white house briefing that we just had, a background in advance of joe biden agency trip, they're not criticizing it at all there. they're very much on board. thank you, all of you, and joining me now from more on senator hagel's confirmation hearin
what are they saying over there at the pentagon? we've also been briefed today that the vice president when he goes to the munich security conference this weekend is going to meet with the syrian envoy from the united nations, brahimi and will meet with the russian foreign minister and with the syrian national council. >> so far out of this building, while they're keeping many of the details close to the vest, we're not hearing any kind of condemnation, criticism, any negative response....
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did the bruising confirmation battle hurt him in the pentagon? an opponent to hagel. thanks for joining us today. >> glad to be with you, thank you. >> now that he's sworn in, what would you like to see as you monitor how he does at the pentagon? >> you know, let me say this, andrea, i view this as yesterday's story. we made a good case that this was a flawed candidate. he's my secretary and yours. i wish him well. as a matter of fact, the first thing i want to do under sequestration is give the secretary of defense and the president of the united states the flexibility under the overall cap to move money around and make the sequestration cuts as painless and less disruptive as possible. >> well, do you think that the confirmation battle weakened him and do you have any regrets about the way that confirmation battle was undertaken by his critics? >> i think we made an honorable case. i still believe his pronouncements and positions over time put him way outside the bipartisan foreign policy mainstream but the president was able to hold his democratic votes, even among
did the bruising confirmation battle hurt him in the pentagon? an opponent to hagel. thanks for joining us today. >> glad to be with you, thank you. >> now that he's sworn in, what would you like to see as you monitor how he does at the pentagon? >> you know, let me say this, andrea, i view this as yesterday's story. we made a good case that this was a flawed candidate. he's my secretary and yours. i wish him well. as a matter of fact, the first thing i want to do under...
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. >> one of the problems, anne, you've covered the state department, the pentagon, the white house, we both worked together at the state department, one of the problems is vacancies, with this administration, less so with the prior under hillary clinton, but under john kerry they claim that they have problems with the confirmation process, with clearances at the white house. white house counsel's office would say we're not getting names sent over. and he, john kerry, doesn't have the political sway to force some of these nominations through the way hillary clinton did. >> yeah. he didn't have an agreement as she did at the start that he could bring a lot of people with him and hire a lot of people, sort of on his own authority. and there are two other complicatie ining factors. you referred to the slowness of the white house counsel's office but both the white house and state department point fingers at the hill saying we are being required to answer so many questions about nominees that are so far down in the weeds that we have to do these ginormous investigations before we can even p
. >> one of the problems, anne, you've covered the state department, the pentagon, the white house, we both worked together at the state department, one of the problems is vacancies, with this administration, less so with the prior under hillary clinton, but under john kerry they claim that they have problems with the confirmation process, with clearances at the white house. white house counsel's office would say we're not getting names sent over. and he, john kerry, doesn't have the...
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how lives are going to change for men and women of the pentagon and how committed chuck hagel is. so she wants to know even though some of the gay activists and some of the interest groups human rights campaign have said that they accept his apology for what he said 14 years ago. >> well, so andrea, i would say that, first of all, i agree with chuck, and i think that what matters here is that the confirmation hearing, i think, may actually matter for chuck hagel. both in terms of the point chuck made, which is that if there is something sort of that we don't know that comes out, this is not a nominee who can probably with stand something like that. i think it's important that chuck schumer, tammy baldwin, normally if nominees fail, whether it's for supreme court or cabinet decisions, they fail in terms of confirmation because the sort of old party of the president pulls back. with harriet myers it was the uprising amongst conservatives that really doomed her. it seems to me john cornyn is not going to be for chuck hagel or john mccain. i doubt they're going to be for chuck hagel,
how lives are going to change for men and women of the pentagon and how committed chuck hagel is. so she wants to know even though some of the gay activists and some of the interest groups human rights campaign have said that they accept his apology for what he said 14 years ago. >> well, so andrea, i would say that, first of all, i agree with chuck, and i think that what matters here is that the confirmation hearing, i think, may actually matter for chuck hagel. both in terms of the...
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>> hey, chris, that pentagon intelligence report is the first official assessment that north korea might actually have a nuclear-armed missile. but they hasten to add, it's not been fully tested and has a low probability of success. it raiseded temperature. just as john kerry was arriving at a diplomatic mission, trying to find a peaceful way out of this. u.s. officials say there's no sign of mobilization? no sign of massing of armed forces of the conventional forces. north of the dmz and there's no sense of alert here in south korea. at the american mens today, there was a spring festival, the uso had an event, a social event planned and it was carried out. so no sense of alarm here. but there certainly is a sense around the world. and john kerry made it very clear here in his statements, both public and private, that the united states is fully committed to completely defend south korea, japan, all of our interests, the american homeland, guam, any u.s. forces. so we are in it. if there is any provocation from it will north. his warning to kim jong un is -- don't take this risk, step ba
>> hey, chris, that pentagon intelligence report is the first official assessment that north korea might actually have a nuclear-armed missile. but they hasten to add, it's not been fully tested and has a low probability of success. it raiseded temperature. just as john kerry was arriving at a diplomatic mission, trying to find a peaceful way out of this. u.s. officials say there's no sign of mobilization? no sign of massing of armed forces of the conventional forces. north of the dmz and...
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but certainly not an auspicious first trip as pentagon chief. i also want to ask you about a controversial decision the administration has brought up abu gaith, the son-in-law of osama bin laden after he was taken in an interesting way by the fbi and the c.i.a. in jordan after kurky extradited him to jordan and on his way to kuwait and he ended up in our hands in new york city. the argument from the administration is that he was talking them and giving them useful information, even after he was given his miranda rights and there's no reason why he cannot safely be prosecuted in lower manhattan where we, you know, prosecuted and convicted the blind sheikh. what are your objections? >> let me put it to the administration and our intelligence, the counterterrorism forces for making this apprehension, it's very important, very significant, i commend them for it. i do disagree with the decision not to treat him as an enemy combatant and not to try him in a military commission. not that i'm not worried about the conviction, i think he will be convicte
but certainly not an auspicious first trip as pentagon chief. i also want to ask you about a controversial decision the administration has brought up abu gaith, the son-in-law of osama bin laden after he was taken in an interesting way by the fbi and the c.i.a. in jordan after kurky extradited him to jordan and on his way to kuwait and he ended up in our hands in new york city. the argument from the administration is that he was talking them and giving them useful information, even after he was...
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up next, the hagel filibuster and sequester politics when former top pentagon official, and next, how close could that giant asteroid come to earth? just a little over an hour from now? look outside. this is "andrea mitchell reports" on only on msnbc. [ male announcer ] why is kellogg's crunchy nut so delicious? because every flake is double-toasted... splashed with sweet honey... and covered in rich double-roasted peanuts. mmm. [ hero ] yummy. [ male announcer ] kellogg's crunchy nut. it's super delicious! [ male announcer ] kellogg's crunchy nut. ( ♪ ) for those nights when it's more than a bad dream, be ready. for the days when you get a sudden call from the school, be ready. for the times you need to double-check the temperature on the thermometer, be ready. when you have children's motrin on hand, you're ready. for high fever, nothing works faster or lasts longer than children's motrin. be ready with children's motrin. this single scoop of gain gives more freshness than a whole box of this other stuff... and that much freshness is gonna take some getting used to... [ sniffing ]
up next, the hagel filibuster and sequester politics when former top pentagon official, and next, how close could that giant asteroid come to earth? just a little over an hour from now? look outside. this is "andrea mitchell reports" on only on msnbc. [ male announcer ] why is kellogg's crunchy nut so delicious? because every flake is double-toasted... splashed with sweet honey... and covered in rich double-roasted peanuts. mmm. [ hero ] yummy. [ male announcer ] kellogg's crunchy...
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elizabeth, in covering the pentagon, what is the mood at the pentagon about chuck hagel coming in? >> well, to some degree you know, the -- >> they salute. >> they don't have a lot of opinion they share with us. they also say it doesn't make that much difference to them who is defense secretary. it will make a difference as the troops come out of afghanistan. that will be the president's policy for that drawdown schedule. you can be sure that what we know about senator hagel that he is -- he is very much in sync with the president about wanting troops out more quickly than perhaps some of the commanders would like. >> and there's some pretty big decisions, including how don't ask don't tell gets implemented, whether benefits are available to couples and especially to married couples in advance of a supreme court decision on doma, as well as the decisions on how quickly get integrated into combat forces. that's all going to be on hagel's plate. >> that's all on hagel's plate. you see a lot of republicans who are uneasy about giving chuck hagel the raines on that. you had jim the ran
elizabeth, in covering the pentagon, what is the mood at the pentagon about chuck hagel coming in? >> well, to some degree you know, the -- >> they salute. >> they don't have a lot of opinion they share with us. they also say it doesn't make that much difference to them who is defense secretary. it will make a difference as the troops come out of afghanistan. that will be the president's policy for that drawdown schedule. you can be sure that what we know about senator hagel...
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the pentagon lifts the 20-year ban on women in combat. opening new career opportunities for thousands of soldiers. live coverage coming up of secretary panetta's big announcement. >> perpetrators of these horrific crimes to attain powerful military-stiz weapons. >> can the weapon get bipartisan support? coming up here new york city kirsten with new details on her bill to crack down on illegal gun trafficking. and the lip sync controversy continues. stephen colbert. >> yes, lip-gate. beyonce-gate. the crisis in lipia. beyonc-ghazi. was there a second singer on the grassy knolls? mr. president, the american people demand answers. what did beyonce sing? when did she sing it? is that even beyonce? it could have been sasha fierce. >> good day. i'm andrea mitchell live in washington. as expected, senator john kerry technically still the chair of the foreign relations committee holding his confirmation hearing today and counted no op sxwligs at that meeting. joining me now is senator bob corker, the top republican on the committee. senator, is i
the pentagon lifts the 20-year ban on women in combat. opening new career opportunities for thousands of soldiers. live coverage coming up of secretary panetta's big announcement. >> perpetrators of these horrific crimes to attain powerful military-stiz weapons. >> can the weapon get bipartisan support? coming up here new york city kirsten with new details on her bill to crack down on illegal gun trafficking. and the lip sync controversy continues. stephen colbert. >> yes,...
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he had been nominated, and they had told us only five or six days ago that he was still -- the pentagon still wants him to take that position. he was temporarily sidelined by an inquiry into whether they were inappropriate emails between him and jill kelly, the tampa woman involved in the whole petraeus situation, and then he was cleared of any wrong doing by the pentagon. >> you know, we're told now that this -- i mean, this is a sad episode. we're told he did not want to come to -- his family would be involved, and he would have to answer questions. >> you know, draen, i think this shows you that even when you are cleared now the damage done. it's -- it seems hard for me to believe that if the whole jill kelly episode hpt ever aired publicly, that he would have decided he would have wanted to step aside. it seemed like he was on the fast track to get that job. these things -- i think what everyone forgets, this is true with military, this is true with particularly at that level, and it's absolutely true of politicians. these people are people. the focus of the coverage of these emails
he had been nominated, and they had told us only five or six days ago that he was still -- the pentagon still wants him to take that position. he was temporarily sidelined by an inquiry into whether they were inappropriate emails between him and jill kelly, the tampa woman involved in the whole petraeus situation, and then he was cleared of any wrong doing by the pentagon. >> you know, we're told now that this -- i mean, this is a sad episode. we're told he did not want to come to -- his...
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. >> in washington republicans head off a government shutdown and give the pentagon more room to maneuver. >> in the house our goal is to cut spend, not shut down the government. we would hope that we would take this bill up and move it quickly. the president on friday agreed that there's no reason to get into some debate about shutting down the government. >> wall street is paying no mind to washington's sequester stalemate as the dow hits new highs. plus, we ask john kerry about that other newly minted diplomat, ambassador rodman, but, first, here's the daily show's take. >> how about rodman, dennis rodman, end up in north korea? >> apparently he was a big, big basketball fan of the bulls in the 1980s. >> that's why he wanted -- i thought maybe he was just a huge fan of, i don't know, double-team with jean claude van dam. how far down the bulls roster do you work to get down to the worm, you know what i'm saying? we know m.j. and pipin aren't going to go, so those calls, you're telling me, though, he couldn't get luke longly or kern, horace grant, benny the bull wouldn't go? >> good day
. >> in washington republicans head off a government shutdown and give the pentagon more room to maneuver. >> in the house our goal is to cut spend, not shut down the government. we would hope that we would take this bill up and move it quickly. the president on friday agreed that there's no reason to get into some debate about shutting down the government. >> wall street is paying no mind to washington's sequester stalemate as the dow hits new highs. plus, we ask john kerry...
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. >> nbc news pentagon correspondent jim miklachewski. the fact that algeria moved without moifg either the french -- or, rather, the brits or us or the japanese and others who had nationals there, the can aidians, there's a lot of dissatisfaction with what's happened so far. >> secretary of state hillary clinton called her counterpart there in algeria, again, for the second day in a row, and expressed deep concerns about the operation moving forward. the safety and security of those that remain hostages. there's a serious concern about the way the algerians conducted that operation yesterday. many of the, officials here at the pentagon suggest that the primary objective of the algerians appeared to be to crush the militants and not necessarily to rescue the hostages, and the state department spokesman said american hostages still do remain and talking about confusing numbers that were anywhere from three to ten america americans. two americans managed to hide during the initial assault on that nat gas complex in algeria and were able to
. >> nbc news pentagon correspondent jim miklachewski. the fact that algeria moved without moifg either the french -- or, rather, the brits or us or the japanese and others who had nationals there, the can aidians, there's a lot of dissatisfaction with what's happened so far. >> secretary of state hillary clinton called her counterpart there in algeria, again, for the second day in a row, and expressed deep concerns about the operation moving forward. the safety and security of...
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israel tested a new missile defense system triggering nerves across the region in cooperation with the pentagon. joining me are bloomberg view columnists and ken pollack, senior fellow at the brookings institution, former white house official and the middle east policy and the author of "unthinkable iran, the bomb." it's september. your book is coming out, ken. >> it is. >> we look forward to reading that. >> i need a longer bio. >> your tweets are enough and funny. >> thank you. >> so here we have israel has been on the sidelines for the last couple of days. now it's very clear that israel views this in its interest to go after syria. what is the sort of view in the middle east of the way the administration has handled this so far. >> there's been a lot of confusion and a lot of perplex city as to what exactly the administration is doing. i'm getting bombarded by calls in the region over why they're doing what they're doing, why they're sequencing it. >> why ask congress. >> essentially after the president announces he's going to go, but he's going to go to congress first. it's reinforced a se
israel tested a new missile defense system triggering nerves across the region in cooperation with the pentagon. joining me are bloomberg view columnists and ken pollack, senior fellow at the brookings institution, former white house official and the middle east policy and the author of "unthinkable iran, the bomb." it's september. your book is coming out, ken. >> it is. >> we look forward to reading that. >> i need a longer bio. >> your tweets are enough and...
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fill some of those cuts april or may or down the road, could dump them a little bit more money to the pentagon and try to offset some of the damages. right now we really don't know, and there's really no one that has proposed anything that could pass both chambers at this point. >> jake sherman, thank you very much. good to see you. >> with our politico briefing. coming up next, to the vatican. s will the vatican now fast track the election of the new pope? we're live in rome next. ann thompson coming up right here on "andrea mitchell reports." [ male announcer ] here's a word you should keep in mind. unbiased. some brokerage firms are. but way too many aren't. why? because selling their funds makes them more money. which makes you wonder -- isn't that a conflict? search "proprietary mutual funds." yikes! then go to e-trade. we've got over 8,000 mutual funds, and not one of them has our name on it. we're in the business of finding the right investments for you. e-trade. less for us. more for you. the fund's prospectus contains its investment objectives, risks, charges, expenses, and other impo
fill some of those cuts april or may or down the road, could dump them a little bit more money to the pentagon and try to offset some of the damages. right now we really don't know, and there's really no one that has proposed anything that could pass both chambers at this point. >> jake sherman, thank you very much. good to see you. >> with our politico briefing. coming up next, to the vatican. s will the vatican now fast track the election of the new pope? we're live in rome next....
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jim mickle shells can i from the pentagon, we appreciate it. thank you so much. >> okay, luke. >>> there was a jobs for our heroes job fair today, an effort to help veterans and spouses find jobs. as meeting the goal of hiring 1,000 veterans, the parent key of msnbc is pledging to hire -- nbc's richard liu joins joins us where the job fair just wrapped up. richard, a lot of need things going on today. i remember some app.s specifically to help veterans get jobs. it's all about placing them in a job which best suits the skills they learned in the military career. >> reporter: yeah, luke, the objective is to try to reach 500,000 jobs. so far the program has been successful at 100,000. the challenge is this cultural whiplash. the medal of honor recipient dakota meyer describes it for us. >> we were successful in the military, built our whole life. we get out in the civilian life and now we can't even get a job? provide for our family? >> reporter: now, what the medal of honor recipient was describing is the difficulty of translating skills from th
jim mickle shells can i from the pentagon, we appreciate it. thank you so much. >> okay, luke. >>> there was a jobs for our heroes job fair today, an effort to help veterans and spouses find jobs. as meeting the goal of hiring 1,000 veterans, the parent key of msnbc is pledging to hire -- nbc's richard liu joins joins us where the job fair just wrapped up. richard, a lot of need things going on today. i remember some app.s specifically to help veterans get jobs. it's all about...
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. >> is he tough enough to cut the pentagon budget where you know in this era that it has to be deeply cut? can he get that through without republican allies because he does seem to be short of republican allies? >> well, i think republicans and democrats are going have to decide what is our mission. what are the threats? what are the requirements to meet those threats, and then devise a budget that needs -- if you start with a premise, we're just iffing to cut the budget, and then we'll decide what our policy is going to be, i think we're heading down the wrong path. i think policy first, what are the requirements, and then decide what the budget will be. i think he is tough enough and strong enough and bringing republicans and democrats together. i think both parties should want a strong national defense consistent with the threats that we have to meet and to appropriate the dollars necessary to meet those threats. that's what this should be. get a strategy first and don't look at the budget first. the strategy and then the budget to conform to the requirements. i think he is strong
. >> is he tough enough to cut the pentagon budget where you know in this era that it has to be deeply cut? can he get that through without republican allies because he does seem to be short of republican allies? >> well, i think republicans and democrats are going have to decide what is our mission. what are the threats? what are the requirements to meet those threats, and then devise a budget that needs -- if you start with a premise, we're just iffing to cut the budget, and then...
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obama but president obama pointedly did not promote him so they were already issues there with the pentagon. he was known as being dovish on the surge in afghanistan and didn't have a whole lot of allies among some of his pentagon troops but he is very popular on the hill, especially with the intelligence committees. now according to michael isikoff's reporting, michael isikoff is reporting that the justice department is looking at him as a prime suspect. he's not been charged, but a prime suspect in the stuxnet leak -- >> very serious leak. >> to david sanger. brilliant book by sanger, of the "new york times," on the whole issue of how we slowed down the iranian nuclear program with israel working to undermine their computers. >> it is kind of hard to understand the motivation. >> it could have been an inadvertent leak which was also the case in the valerie plame case. >> i'm probably in the minority on this but this strikes me as as big a deal in snowden in a kind of way. we aren't talking about a disaffected 29-year-old hacker. we're talking one of the nation's senior-most military leade
obama but president obama pointedly did not promote him so they were already issues there with the pentagon. he was known as being dovish on the surge in afghanistan and didn't have a whole lot of allies among some of his pentagon troops but he is very popular on the hill, especially with the intelligence committees. now according to michael isikoff's reporting, michael isikoff is reporting that the justice department is looking at him as a prime suspect. he's not been charged, but a prime...
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secretary hagel had a news conference a bit ago just talking about how serious the impact was for the pentagon. lets watch. >> it's important to note that congress did not remove the shadow of uncertainty that has been cast over this department and our government much of this year. like much of the rest of the government dod is operating on a short-term continuing resolution which limits our ability to start new programs. the damaging cuts of sequestration remain the law of the land. >> do you think now is part of the budget process that there's a chance of avoiding not only changing the current sequester but avoiding the next tranche which is supposed to hit january 15th? >> i hope we can do that. as the secretary's comments suggest, they have been able to manage through some sequestration cuts this year that gets more and more difficult. incredibly difficult. where they have to go is readiness accounts, training, maintenance accounts, investment accounts, platforms, new technology. that's going to be very, very difficult. the size of these cuts and the fact they have exhausted all of their b
secretary hagel had a news conference a bit ago just talking about how serious the impact was for the pentagon. lets watch. >> it's important to note that congress did not remove the shadow of uncertainty that has been cast over this department and our government much of this year. like much of the rest of the government dod is operating on a short-term continuing resolution which limits our ability to start new programs. the damaging cuts of sequestration remain the law of the land....
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number one, it is regular standard procedure if you're a diplomat and you work in pentagon state national security council, if you acquire phone numbers of your important counter-parts, you are to turn them over to the nsa. >> really. >> that is apparently -- >> that is standard. >> that is fairly standard. i've talked to a number of people who say when asked they have given contact information to potential counter-parts and other governments. i found on the one hand you're sitting there and saying this has been done for years. that's something snowden's files have known has happened. we now know how that cell number got into the system. it wasn't like it was stolen. this is nsa memos. that's one part. the second part has to do with the fact the white house is now saying we're not going to do it going forward. you get the sense that they know they are embarrassed by the revelations. they are not necessarily embarrassed by the tactics but embarrassed they got caught. >> take a look at what some of the eu parliamentarians came, axle voss from germany speaking on capitol hill to frank. >> fr
number one, it is regular standard procedure if you're a diplomat and you work in pentagon state national security council, if you acquire phone numbers of your important counter-parts, you are to turn them over to the nsa. >> really. >> that is apparently -- >> that is standard. >> that is fairly standard. i've talked to a number of people who say when asked they have given contact information to potential counter-parts and other governments. i found on the one hand...
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nomination of general allen to be the nato supreme allied commander now that he's been cleared by the pentagon investigation going back to the petraeus case. thanks to all of you, david sanger and kelly o'donnell, of course, and chris cillizza, see you later. thanks very much. >>> clinton today put a lot of blame on congress for withholding aid. >> we have to get our act together between the administration and congress. if this is a priority and if we are serious about trying it help this government stand up security and deal with what is a very dangerous environment, from east to west, then we have to work together. i also hope we're looking forward, because right now, libya is still dangerous, it is still in a very unstable status, and whatever we can do for them, we at least ought to agree we need to do and get out there and start delivering. >> one of the members of the senate foreign relations committee, who is asking questions, is the new hampshire senator jean chacin, former governor, democratic member of the committee, who was in the hearing room. you're joining us right now from the r
nomination of general allen to be the nato supreme allied commander now that he's been cleared by the pentagon investigation going back to the petraeus case. thanks to all of you, david sanger and kelly o'donnell, of course, and chris cillizza, see you later. thanks very much. >>> clinton today put a lot of blame on congress for withholding aid. >> we have to get our act together between the administration and congress. if this is a priority and if we are serious about trying it...
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. >>> and the defense department today, former secretary of state hillary clinton was awarded the pentagon's highest recognition for a civilian employee. clinton thanked the group for her valentine's day gift. we should note also for the first time since her accident in december, clinton did not have to wear those corrective lenses she's been using for impaired vision from her fall. >> in the future we will be looking to your suck -- to keep our nation strong, free and exceptional. >> and pope benedict xvi has given his final mass in a rare ovation from the people assembled at st. peter's kba silica. nbc's anne thompson is live with us in rome and i don't think we knew the full extent of the troubles he was experiencing in mexico, that final trip where he was in mexico and in cuba, we knew there were scandals in the church there, protests for lack of an apology. but now it turns out he took a fall in the middle of the night and hit his head? >> reporter: he did and it was after that trip when he wind chill factor to cuba that the pope made the decision he was going to retire and started sett
. >>> and the defense department today, former secretary of state hillary clinton was awarded the pentagon's highest recognition for a civilian employee. clinton thanked the group for her valentine's day gift. we should note also for the first time since her accident in december, clinton did not have to wear those corrective lenses she's been using for impaired vision from her fall. >> in the future we will be looking to your suck -- to keep our nation strong, free and...